Photo Bomber

Business Purpose & Ecosystem Overview

PhotoBomber is a social photo-challenge game ecosystem for iPhone. Users create or join timed games, receive challenges, capture photos, apply effects, vote on submissions, and climb leaderboards. A PHP/MySQL backend powers the game state, picture storage, invitations, and push notifications.

Key System Features

• Create and configure photo-challenge games (PhotoBomber, Location, Royale)
• Invite friends and manage game rosters
• Camera capture with filters and collage composition
• Challenge feed, picture galleries, and like voting
• Leaderboards and achievement tracking
• Push notification-driven game invites and challenge alerts
• Facebook integration for friend discovery and sharing
• Game, challenge, playlist, and user CRUD APIs
• Picture upload, comment, and like management
• Apple Push Notification Service dispatch

Tier Architecture & Breakdown

iOS Game Client

Purpose: The native iPhone client lets users create, join, and play photo-challenge games. It captures photos, applies filters/collage effects, browses challenges and leaderboards, and manages invitations.

Key Features:

• Create and configure photo-challenge games (PhotoBomber, Location, Royale)
• Invite friends and manage game rosters
• Camera capture with filters and collage composition
• Challenge feed, picture galleries, and like voting
• Leaderboards and achievement tracking
• Push notification-driven game invites and challenge alerts
• Facebook integration for friend discovery and sharing

PHP Web Service Backend

Purpose: The PHP/MySQL backend exposes REST-style endpoints for games, challenges, pictures, users, playlists, notifications, and achievements. It also delivers Apple Push Notification Service messages.

Key Features:

• Game, challenge, playlist, and user CRUD APIs
• Picture upload, comment, and like management
• Achievement and progress tracking
• Invitation and notification workflows
• Apple Push Notification Service dispatch
• Game timer and challenge state orchestration